Lauderdale Maitland

Lauderdale Valentine John Maitland (1878 – 28 February 1929)[1] was a British stage and film actor.

[2] He was born in 1878 in Merton, at that time in Surrey, the son of Adele and William Lauderdale Maitland, a florist.

In 1908 he played Prince Olaf in The Prince and the Beggar Maid and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet opposite Nora Kerin as Juliet and Matheson Lang as Romeo.

Maitland died in 1929 at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark in London.

He left an estate valued at £521 17s 7d to his widow, the actress Kate Janet Maitland.